DDS, State University of Lublin School of Medicine, Poland, 1992

MPH, University of Rochester, 2003

Dorota Kopycka-Kedzierawski DDS, MPH

Assistant Professor,
University Dental Faculty Group

Contact Information:
University of Rochester Medical Center
Eastman Dental Center
625 Elmwood Avenue, Box 683
Rochester, NY 14620

E-mail: Dorota_KopyckaKedzierawski@urmc.rochester.edu

Research Interests:
Caries risk assessment in children and risk factors associated with caries onset in children. Cost effectiveness of caries risk assessment. Racial disparities in oral health. Qualitative measures of dental fear. Prevention of oral cancer.

Additional Education:
Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program, University of Rochester Eastman Dental Center, 2002

OVERVIEW

Dr. Kopycka-Kedzierawski’s research focuses on caries risk assessment in children. She is interested in risk factors associated with caries onset. To describe caries onset, she applies different modeling techniques which are seldom used in dentistry, such as survival analysis, Markov models and stochastic processes. Currently she is involved in the research project on racial disparities in oral health.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Dr. Kopycka-Kedzierawski's publications.

Kopycka-Kedzierawski DT., Billings RJ. Healthful eating practices may lower caries prevalence in the primary dentition in children 2-5 years of age. Article Analysis and Evaluation. Journal of Evidence Based Dental Practice 5(1):35-36, 2005.

Billings RJ, Kopycka-Kedzierawski DT. Sugar Starch Combination are associated with dental caries in low-risk adolescents. Article Analysis and Evaluation. Journal of Evidence Based Dental Practice.  4:242-3, 2004

Kopycka-Kedzierawski DT, Lantzy M, Coyle S, Billings RJ. Use of Teledentistry for Detection of caries in Preschool Children. J Dent Res 85 (Spec Iss A): 1997, 2006

Auinger P, Kopycka-Kedzierawski DT, Weitzman M.  Dental caries status of overweight children in the United States. Pediatric Academic Society 2005:57:325.

Herendeen N, Kopycka-Kedzierawski DT, Billings RJ, McConnochie KM.  Teledentistry Reduces   Oral Health Disparities of Preschoolers in Head Start, Journal of Telemedicine and e-health, vol 11 No 2, T1E3, 2005.

DT. Kopycka-Kedzierawski, RJ. Billings, Lactobacilli levels and Longitudinal Assessment of Caries Onset in Children. J Dent Res 83 (Spec Iss A): 764, 2004.

CL Shaffer, DM. Almog, DT. Kopycka-Kedzierawski, J. Roy, Dental Instruments Related Injures in a Diagnostic Treatment Center. J Dent Res 83 (Spec Iss A): 729, 2004.

JM. Belle-Isle, DM. Almog, DT. Kopycka-Kedzierawski, Preparedness In a Community Based Dental Office Setting. J Dent Res 83 (Spec Iss A): 1986, 2004.

Almog D, Kopycka-Kedzierawski D, Borrelli J, Automated Appointment Confirmation System Improves Fiscal Performance of a Faculty Practice Setting. J Dent Educ 68(2):12 February 2004.

Almog DM, Devries JA, Borrelli JA, Kopycka-Kedzierawski DT. Automated appointment confirmation system reduces broken appointment rates. Journal of Dental Education, 67(9): 1016-1022, 2003.

Esham B., Kedzierawski A., Kopycka-Kedzierawski D., Rommel-Esham K. Identification and Removal of Barriers to the Use of Computer Algebra Systems in the Science Curriculum, In the proceedings of "3rd International Conference on Technology in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education" July 14-16, 2003, Heidelberg Germany, pp 65-68

Kopycka D., Cervello K., Kedzierawski A., Thompson K., Correlations Between Students’ Experiences in High School and in Calculus I. NY State Mathematics Teacher Journal, 53(3): 102-106, 2003.

DT. Kopycka-Kedzierawski, RJ. Billings, Application of Markov models for predicting risk of caries onset in initially caries-free children. J Dent Res 83 (Spec Iss A): 2087, 2003.

DT. Kopycka-Kedzierawski, RJ. Billings, Salivary Mutans Streptococci levels and caries risk assessment in children. J Dent Res 82 (Spec Iss A): 1021, 2003.

DT. Kopycka-Kedzierawski, ME. Moss, RJ. Billings, Cost effectiveness model of caries risk assessment. J Dent Res 81(Spec Iss A): 2059, 2002.

DT. Kopycka-Kedzierawski, ME. Moss, AW. Kedzierawski, H. Lee, C. Meyerowitz, Random effects model of dental caries progression described by the Wiener process between a reflecting and an absorbing barrier. J Dent Res 80: (Spec Iss A): 774, 2001.

DT. Kopycka-Kedzierawski, ME. Moss, AW. Kedzierawski, Stochastic model of caries progression, Preliminary report. Abstracts of Amer. Math. Soc., 22, No 1, 2001.